Archives: August, 2011
Miseria on day 3 of Cowes Week
August 8, 2011Today we started with good hope and full of confidence. After all we had a first and a third place in our pocket. We had a good start, probably the best of all boats, under spinaker and at the start we were only 2 boat lengths away from the start line. All efforts we put […]
winsome news | by Harry Heijst | August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2011, Day 1
August 6, 2011Yeehaaa!, We’ve won and with a margin, although it did not look like we would do so from the start. We started 150 mtr south of the Committee vessel on the RYS line. As the tide was running to the East, we were faced with lots of tide against us. We started south of the […]
winsome news | by Boj | August 6, 2011 | 2 Comments | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2011, minus 2
August 4, 2011Yesterday Floris, Hidde, Leen and myself joined Harry, Sophie and Joost Nijhof, who where already on the Island. Today Joost and Joost came over from Amsterdam and Vlijmen, whilst Peter Morton came over from his cottage. So now we have three(!) Joosts and some other people. To get this tripple Joost problem out of the way, from […]
winsome news | by Boj | August 4, 2011 | Comments Off on Cowes Week 2011, minus 2 | Comments RSS